Novelized accounts of historical figures’ lives are hugely popular. But do we really want to draw back the curtain on history and find people talking and acting the way we do?
Megan Marshall | NYTimes Books | Disclosure
Showing posts with label History (Academic Subject). Show all posts
Showing posts with label History (Academic Subject). Show all posts
Friday, March 7, 2025
How Do You Like Your History? With Imaginative Leaps or Grounded in Fact?
Megan Marshall | NYTimes Books | Disclosure
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
The Archives Tried to Erase Her Family. She Tells Their Story.
A new memoir by the historian Martha S. Jones combines a trenchant analysis of race and the historical record with a homage to other Black women scholars.
Kerri K. Greenidge | NYTimes Books | Disclosure
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
A Love Song to His Roots
In “Remembering Peasants,” the historian Patrick Joyce presents a stirring elegy for a vanishing culture.
Fintan O’Toole | NYTimes Books | Disclosure
Thursday, October 12, 2023
Heather Cox Richardson Wants You to Study History
The author of “Democracy Awakening” and a popular politics newsletter makes a powerful case for studying the past.
Elisabeth Egan | NYTimes Books | Disclosure
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
The Holocaust in Poland and the Erasures of the Past
In “Jews in the Garden,” the journalist Judy Rakowsky helps a relative uncover the truth of what happened to their family during World War II.
Richard J. Evans | NYTimes Books | Disclosure
Monday, April 24, 2023
Coloring History’s Gray Areas, With Strong Moral Outrage
Éric Vuillard writes short historical narratives known for their irony. His latest, “An Honorable Exit,” delves into France’s defeat in the First Indochina War.
BY TOBIAS GREY | NYTimes Books | Disclosure
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Patrick French, Unsparing Biographer of V.S. Naipaul, Dies at 56
He was a historian of India and Tibet, but best known for his biography of Naipaul, which one reviewer described as “a portrait of the artist as a monster.”
BY NEIL GENZLINGER | NYTimes Books | Disclosure
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